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Prognosis dire for Camacho after being shot in Puerto Rico

The family of
Hector “Macho” Camacho tried to decide whether he should be removed from life
support after a shooting in his Puerto Rican hometown left the former boxing champion clinging to
life and his fans mourning the loss of a dynamic and often troubled athlete.

Doctors at the Centro Medico trauma center in San Juan found that Camacho had irregular and
intermittent brain activity late yesterday, said
Dr. Ernesto Torres, the center’s director.

“We can’t declare him brain dead,” he said.

Torres said doctors will conduct additional tests early today but warned the prognosis remains
dire.

“The changes have been more negative than positive,” he said, adding that Camacho does not have
enough blood coursing through his brain.

Doctors initially had said Camacho was in critical, but stable condition and expected to survive
after he was shot on Tuesday night in the city of Bayamon. But his condition worsened overnight and
his heart stopped at one point, Torres said.

Camacho, 50, was shot as he and a friend sat in a car parked outside a bar. A police spokesman
said officers found nine small bags of cocaine in the friend’s pocket, and a 10th bag open inside
the car.

• A judge in Los Angeles said an auction of
Evander Holyfield’s boxing memorabilia can continue but without 12 items from the
former heavyweight champion’s career.

The restricted items include Holyfield’s robes from his first fight with
Mike Tyson and his Olympic bronze medal. Holyfield had sought to limit the sale of
20 items during an auction on Nov. 30 that is being organized by Julien’s Auctions.

Golf

Golfers hit back-to-back holes-in-one on same hole

Two club golfers playing The Lakes in Sydney — site of the Australian Open beginning on Dec. 6 —
hit consecutive holes-in-one on the par-3 ninth hole yesterday.

Peter Hough and
Jonathan Cook had the back-to-back aces with Hough, a member at The Lakes, holing
out first on the 136-yard hole. Both used 7-irons.

The National Hole in One Registry website in the United States quotes the odds of two players
from the same foursome acing the same hole as 17 million-to-one.

Soccer

Chelsea fires manager six months after winning Champions League

Roberto Di Matteo’s reign as Chelsea’s manager ended suddenly yesterday when he
was fired only six months after guiding the club to an unlikely Champions League title.
Rafa Benitez was appointed interim manager until the end of the season.

Russian owner
Roman Abramovich displayed his trademark ruthlessness by getting rid of Di Matteo
with the defense of the European trophy in tatters following a 3-0 loss at Juventus on Tuesday.